Improvement in cans for liquids



. W. PEOK.

Gan for Liquid.

No. 208,118. *Patented Sept.17 .'1878.

n PETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRA UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. PEOK, OF ROSELLE, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANS FOR LIQUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,118, dated September 17, 1878; application filed July 19,1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PEoK, of Roselle, in the State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Cans for Liquids, of which the following is a specification:

' Cans for liquids have been made of sheet metal and other material, inclosed within a wooden box or case; and in some instances trunnions have projected from such cans, to

support the same while the can is being tipped into an inclined position for pouring out the contents. These trnnnions projecting from the can are liable to be broken off, bent, or injured, and the box or case has to be made with special reference to such trunnions.

My invention relates to the combination, with the can or vessel and its inclosing-case, of removable pivot-pins passing through holes in the case and entering sockets in or upon the vessel, so as to sustain the can while being tipped.

In the drawing, Figure l is a vertical sec- ,tion of the can and its inclosing-case with the parts in the position they occupy when the can is to be tipped for pouring its contents and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the can and case.

The can is composed of the bottom (1, sides I), and top 0. It may be of sheet metal, glass, or other material, and of suitable size and shape. I have represented a can of sheet metal, cubical in shape. The box or case for receiving this can is of a size and shape adapted to the can, and it is preferable that the sides 6 be as high as the can, to support the same by the pivot-pins i when the can is elevated, and that the sidesf be lower, to allow the can to swing above them. These sides f are represented as made in two sections, the lower portions being stationary and the upper portions hinged to them, so as to fold downwardlywhen the can is to be tipped; but

as the box or case with these hinged sides forms the subject of a separate application for a patent, the same is not claimed herein.

The sockets o for the pivot-pins z' are made into or attached to the can or vessel. In the case of sheet-metal cans such sockets will be tubular, as shown, and. pass in at each side or all across the can, and soldered at the ends; but with glass or earthenware vessels or cans the sockets are preferably formed of the same material and. project inwardly, as aforesaid. The sockets, however, may be in conical blocks or hubs, sustained at opposite sides of the can by metal straps passing around or beneath the can or vessel.

The pivot-pins it are to be pushed 0r sprung into the sockets when the can is elevated, and withdrawn before the can is lowered into the box or case.

I am aware that in inkstands the glass has been made with depressions at opposite sides for supporting pivots; but the pivot sockets and pins have not been applied to and combined with a can and theinclosing-case, whereby the movable pivot-pins are adapted to suspend the can within the case and the case to receive and protect the can when not in use.

I claim as my invention The combination, with the can or vessel and its inclosing-case, of removable pivot-pins passing through hples in the case and into sockets in or upon the vessel for receiving the ends of the pivot-pins, all for supporting the vessel while being tipped, or for allowing the vessel to be inclosed within the case, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 13th day of July, A. D.

GEO. W. PEOK. Witnesses: GEO. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

